tough sales job for speaker boehner and the president has to bring along the democrats and might be medicare cuts in a deal and that's becoming, so, the bottom line is that, to get in done by the end of the year, you've got to get something for lawmakers to work on otherwise we fall off that cliff and a lot of economists are saying we could slip into another recession, if they don't figure it out. if the americans have been tuning out. and knowing they have met face-to-face today and we don't know the content of their conversation, it might be time to tune back in as we are crushing now toward that deadline. ed henry at the white house and we'll come back to you, ed, if the news warrants. >> we will continue to follow this developing story and bring you any updates from washington as they come into our news room and check back with ed. if there's breaking news there. but the headlines right now. president obama ab house speaker boehner behind closed doors meeting on the fiscal cliff earlier and also tonight on the fox report. >> a dramatic hostage situation, a botched robbery at a fast food